Small towns may rely too much on a single business or market segment. - Metropolitan statistical areaBoth state and metro populations increasing.

Your services are only appropriate for a small segment of the property owner and investor buyer markets, and you have to make sure that you deal with the right people only.

Milwaukee has many very different faces indeed and I would argue that zip codes are maybe not the best way to segment the city, as some will overlap.

@Ryan GuerretteYou mentioned being new to investing in real estate - You likely want to work with a CPA who will be able to tell how different segments of real estate are taxed(buy and hold, flipping, wholesaling) as they are all treated differently.There are also many tax codes that are favorable to real estate investors(1031 exchange, 121 exclusion, depreciation, real estate professional status).

There is one additional tax to be levied against high cost health plans in 2018, but other than that, what you see now is what you get.I am unaware of any aspect of the ACA that penalizes individual practices in any manner, so would be very interested to understand how you arrived at this conclusion.That said, as segments of the American population continues to age, medical offices are very likely to be a decent investment providing there is not already oversaturation of the local market.

Its also an isolated segment of the House that is in favor so I don't think it will even survive the first vote, but it is an interesting discussion. 

The downtown has a ways to go before it really recovers, some parts of it are likely better than others but I'm not on top of it because it's a segment I'm not interested in.There may be some interest in rentals in the south part of Calgary, particularly around the South Health Campus (new hospital).  

In their 'Homes Segment', latest SEC quarterly report, page 34"Sales and Marketing.

Granted, that is based on broad indexes and there are certainly segments and markets that have done better or worse, and like everything else, location and timing have a huge impact on returns.

In mid to lower segments that won't be the case, and protecting yourself from bad tenants becomes more important, so the ability to non-renew a MTM lease can be important.